The Manitowoc Herald News of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, writes today that The University of Wisconsin–Manitowoc is inviting the community to participate as the jury in a theatrical retrial of Lizzie Borden on January 13, 2007, at the University Theatre. The trial will be a re-creation, using excerpts from original trial transcripts, as well as period costumes….

A site called Uncyclopedia has a cute section on nursery rhymes that for some reason includes the Lizzie Borden doggerel. Lyrics Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one. Origins This famous children’s rhyme was inspired by a girl’s alleged…

This was on TV last season and someone put the Lizzie Borden B&B on YouTube for our enjoyment. This clip starts off with the end of the previous segment on the Mansfield Reformatory in Ohio. At the 2:43 mark is the Lizzie Borden case. Each clip is over 8 minutes long. If you are on…

Although not marketed as containing this info, this 2002 book by Katherine Ramsland, includes a section on her staying at the Lizzie Borden B&B. Might be worth a looksee. Ghost: Investigating the Other Side, St. Martin’s Press, 2002. From Publisher’s Weekly Ramsland (author of numerous books on Anne Rice, vampirism and other ghoulish subjects) is…

A nifty poem by Gail Mazur appears on PoetryFoundation.org. EXCERPT I want to find my way back to her, to help her, to grab her hand, pull her up from the wooden floor of the stacks where sheâ€™s reading accounts of the hatchet murders of Lizzie Bordenâ€™s harsh parents as if she could learn something…

SpiritEncounters, a UK website, offers a section on Lizzie Borden. Full of factual inaccuracies and misspellings, it is still a good sample of what the latest craze with Lizzie seems to be: haunted Borden! Yes, more scary Lizzie in the days to come! It is October and Halloween time after all!

A very strange but true story of a young man who killed his neighbor appears on CourtTV news. “Convicted teen killer knew tragedy, drugs early in life, but was considered gentle”. MARTINEZ, Calif. â€” Scott Dyleski was a 16-year-old college student, animal rights’ activist and budding artist when he woke up one morning last fall…

AOL has published “Halloween Frightfest on AOL CityGuide: Top 13 Haunted Houses and Freaky Attractions, Celebrity Costume Ideas, Daredevil Dishes, Biggest Bashes, and Supernatural Salem” and the Lizzie Borden B&B has made it to #2 on the list of Top 13 Freaky Attractions. Here is a link to the list in case you want to…